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One of my clients recently needed to implement an application-level encryption for some existing applications.

Unfortunately, the design pattern used for the database layer obliged me to write an independent script to browse the database and encrypt the data for each user using a user-specific two-way encryption key.

So, I ended up writing a simple utility class that applies a user-defined function (modifies) to the defined columns and records (via a filter query) of each database table.

It can be used for any relational database server supported by PDO (MySQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle). I’ve only used it with MySQL but it should work smoothly with all the others.